Search Results for "Cheap Car Insurance USA *** TOLL FREE: 888-430-8975 *** car insurance american family auto insurance how much deductible New Jersey car insurance compare rates Corinth MS car insurance near me"
12th Annual Vashon-Maury Island Low Tide Celebration
The Keepers of Point Robinson and the Vashon Park District, in cooperation with other conservation-minded sponsors shown on the poster, announce the 12th annual Low Tide Celebration. This event, which is FREE, this year is on Saturday, 24 June, from 10AM to 3PM. The low tide this year is at 11:4...
Building Citizen Science with Volunteers as Partners: Part 3
The field of citizen science has grown explosively over the last decade, benefitting from excellent PR, Presidential shout-outs, advances in big data, and, not least, a Web 2.0 world replete with hashtags, networks, and crowdsourcing. It turns out people love doing science in their spare time! The h...
Protocol In Focus: Why Do We Use Two Types of Trap?
One strength of the Crab Team protocol is that it enables us to confidently compare findings among different sites, and track changes over time – even if different people are doing the sampling. With sampling on this scale, even the small steps can be important to what we learn from the data...
Boater Outreach – Wooden Boat Festival
Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festival is the most education-packed and beautifully located wooden boat event in the world. Featuring more than 300 wooden vessels, hundreds of indoor and outdoor presentations and demonstrations, a who’s who of wooden boat experts and thousands of wooden bo...
Further Green Crab Captures in Whatcom County
October 22, 2019
Broadening the search for invasive European green crab in Drayton Harbor, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and WSG Crab Team captured additional European green crab in recent weeks. In addition, Lummi Natural Resources has reported capturing green crab in Lummi Bay as a re...
Crab Team at the Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
May 31, 2022
The second all-virtual Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (April 26-28) offered everyone with an interest or involvement in the inland waters shared by Washington and British Columbia the chance to connect over a huge range of topics, impacts of last summer’s heat dome, southern resi...
2020 Salish Sea Green Crab Update
November 23, 2020
Trapping for European green crab has mostly concluded for the 2020 season, enabling us to take stock of all that was accomplished this year and provide some status updates on green crab. The obstacles this year were considerable, but volunteers and managers were more than equal to ...
Protocol in Focus: Why do we measure European green crabs?
November 17, 2023
We are Crab Team after all, so it’s perhaps no surprise that we are not shy about getting up to our elbows in details about the crabs we catch. But what can we actually learn from looking at size data of crabs? What makes handling all the angry pinchers worthwhile?
We’re cove...
Oil Spill Vulnerability Models
Oil Spill Vulnerability Models
Modeling the Vulnerability of Seabirds to Oil Spills
Researchers took a closer look at how oil spills affect different species of Pacific Northwest seabirds.
Principal Investigator
Julia Parrish, University of Washington, School of Aquatic and F...
2018 European Green Crab Season Update
November 1, 2018
The turning of the leaves signals a winding-down of green crab trapping activities. Just as it feels right to us to hunker down and stay warm, cooler water temperatures also cause green crab to become less catchable in the fall and winter. Crab Team monitors have pulled and stored t...
Environmental DNA (Part 3): Reconciling eDNA with Traditional Detection Methods
March 30, 2022
This is the third in a series of posts on a Crab Team project to develop environmental DNA (eDNA) for use in early detection and management of European green crab. The first posts provided an introduction to eDNA and the benefits and challenges it offers to invasion managers.
In devel...
To Be Sustainable, Conservation Needs to Consider the Human Factor
April 12, 2016
International researchers urge including the social sciences in ecosystem management, highlighting indicators of human well-being developed by Washington Sea Grant and the Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
For too long, sustainability goals and environmental management have failed t...